We are soon to complete our research work on the ill fated Dieppe raid of 19th August 1942. Living close to Newhaven Port where a number of memorials now stand to the men who lost there lives during this attack we have always been curious about how and why it happened. 1942 saw the peak of power in Nazi Germany and at this stage in the war the Germans were winning hands down and Britain was facing desperate times. Given this and that America had only just entered the war it seems foly to send 6,000 men into occupied France and to expect them all to get back again alive. The big unknown has always been Why, what was so important to want to undertake such a dangerous raid at that point in the war? Well now we know from recently declassified documents; our new page on this story is coming very soon and it will rewrite the history books!